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Book Synopsis


Table of Contents


Contents


Acknowledgments


Introduction

Karen Beckman and Liliane Weissberg


1. From the Birth of Photography to the Death of the Author

Marcy J. Dinius


2. Picturing the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell and the Divergent Paths of Art

and Science in the Representation of the Colorado River and Utah Canyonlands

Roderick Coover


3. “Watch How Dem Touris’ Like Fe Look”: Tourist Photography and Claude McKay’s

Jamaica

Leah Rosenberg


4. Captured Things: Man Ray’s Object Photography

Janine Mileaf


5. Photography’s Linguistic Turn: On Werner Graeff’s Here Comes the New

Photographer!

Daniel H. Magilow


6. The Power of What Is Not There: James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Stuart Burrows


7. Playing Doll

Liliane Weissberg


8. Situating Images: Photography, Writing, and Cinema in the Work of Guy Debord

Tyrus Miller


9. The Generation of Postmemory

Marianne Hirsch


10. Picturing the Specter of History: Zhang Ailing’s Visual Practice

Xiaojue Wang


11. Sphinxes without Secrets: W. G. Sebald’s Albums and the Aesthetics of

Photographic Exchange

Adrian Daub


12. Nothing to Say: The War on Terror and the Mad Photography of Roland Barthes

Karen Beckman



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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 22/02/2013
      ISBN13: 9780816677290, 978-0816677290
      ISBN10: 0816677298
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents


      Contents


      Acknowledgments


      Introduction

      Karen Beckman and Liliane Weissberg


      1. From the Birth of Photography to the Death of the Author

      Marcy J. Dinius


      2. Picturing the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell and the Divergent Paths of Art

      and Science in the Representation of the Colorado River and Utah Canyonlands

      Roderick Coover


      3. “Watch How Dem Touris’ Like Fe Look”: Tourist Photography and Claude McKay’s

      Jamaica

      Leah Rosenberg


      4. Captured Things: Man Ray’s Object Photography

      Janine Mileaf


      5. Photography’s Linguistic Turn: On Werner Graeff’s Here Comes the New

      Photographer!

      Daniel H. Magilow


      6. The Power of What Is Not There: James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

      Stuart Burrows


      7. Playing Doll

      Liliane Weissberg


      8. Situating Images: Photography, Writing, and Cinema in the Work of Guy Debord

      Tyrus Miller


      9. The Generation of Postmemory

      Marianne Hirsch


      10. Picturing the Specter of History: Zhang Ailing’s Visual Practice

      Xiaojue Wang


      11. Sphinxes without Secrets: W. G. Sebald’s Albums and the Aesthetics of

      Photographic Exchange

      Adrian Daub


      12. Nothing to Say: The War on Terror and the Mad Photography of Roland Barthes

      Karen Beckman



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